Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-current)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, Rice University (2023)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics, University of Mainz, Univerisity of Bayreuth, Leiden University (2015-2023)

Ph.D. in Physics, Leipzig University (2015)

Research Interests

My current research focuses on probing ultrafast dynamics of plasmon excitation and plasmonic energy transfer using recently developed on-chip lock-in detection for single-particle ultrafast transient spectroscopy.

Publications

1. S. Dutta, S. Adhikari, J. Yoo, J-H Kim, A. Al-Zubeidi, C. F. Landes, S. Link, Solvated Electron Generation from Coupled Plasmon Modes of Gold Nanoparticles Using Visible Light, Nano Lett., 26, 15, 4944–4950 (2026).
2. R. Khan, S. Adhikari, J-H. Kim, O. Verma, S. Link, Laser-Induced Enhancement of Acoustic Mode Quality Factor Revealed by Correlated Single-Particle Optical and Electron Microscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C , 130, 9, 3366–3373 (2026).
3. E. Gomez, Z. Bian, T. Chatterjee, S. Adhikari, S. Nie, M. Gruebele. S. Link, Single-Particle Emission Microscopy of Green-Emitting Carbon Dots Made from Top-Down and Bottom-Up Precursors, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 17, 1, 222–229 (2026).
4. E. Gomez, A. Mehmood, Z. Bian, S. A. Lee, L. J. Tauzin, S. Adhikari, M. Gruebele, B. G. Levine, S. Link, Single-Particle Correlated Imaging Reveals Multiple Chromophores in Carbon Dot Fluorescence, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147, 21, 17784–17794 (2025).
5. O. Verma, S. Adhikari, A. Chakraborty, P. K. Jain, S. Link, Bovine-Hemoglobin Detection by Single-Particle Plasmon-Coupled Circular Dichroism, Nano Lett., 25, 21, 8480–8487 (2025).
6. S. Adhikari,  N. Gross,  K. S. Wilson,  O. Verma,  Z. Jia,  C. F. Landes,  S. T. Roberts, S. Link, On-Chip Lock-In Detection for Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Single Particles, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128, 21, 8708–8715 (2024).